On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:10:23 -0500, "GlowingBlueMist"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Steve wrote:
>> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>> (E-Mail Removed) says...
>>>
>>> My sister lives in another state. When she got DSL, I bought a
>>> Linksys router, and with the help of Usenet, figured out how to set
>>> it up with DSL.
>>>
>>> The first time the power went out, instead of wating for the service
>>> to be restorded, he reset the modem. So we both kind of agreed that
>>> she would subscribe to the DSL's wireless service.
>>>
>>> Well I now put a wireless card in my niece's computer. She only gets
>>> one bar from the current router.
>>>
>>> I was wondering if I could plug the Linksys into the current router
>>> and see if she could get a better signal from the Linksys?
>>
>> So why do you think the problem is with the router and not the
>> wireless card?
>>
>Also are you sure your niece is picking up the DSL modem's wireless hookup
>or another, say from next door? If not sure or unsure of the SSID of the
>DSL modem, power it off and see if your niece's computer still shows a
>wireless feed of one bar. SSID can also be optionally turned off.
Because my niece connected the first time, I assume their router is
unsecured. They live around 20 miles from the closest red light so I
am also pretty sure they have the only wireless router for many miles.
There house is at the maxium limit for DSL. They were even turned
down the first time they tried to subscribe.
>
>Is your sisters computer actually using wireless or is it connected to the
>DSL modem using an Ethernet cable? Reason I ask is some of them ship the
>DSL modem with the wireless transmitter turned off in the settings. If that
>function has not been turned on by someone, either your sister, you, or the
>DSL tech support then your niece may not be seeing that DSL modem at all,
>but someone else's modem.
>
The main machine is hardwired but, my nephew has a Xbox or some kind
of online game console. That is the reason for the wireless router in
the first place. My niece didn't live there at the time.
My computer skills are limited, but my sister can barely turn one on.
My nephew is 15, but he is the computer guru of the house. He can at
least do what the people at tech support tell him. I live the next
state over. It is about 45 min away.
I tried using a wireless network card to get her system configured
here at my house, but after 3 different cards, I concluded that her
machine didn't meet the hardware requirements and was not going to
work anyway. I had to buy a USB wireless dongle to connect to my
router here, and that is what she is using there.
She does not use her computer much, so I am just learning after over a
month that it only gives her 1 bar, or I would carry the dongle back
and get a more powerful one. It worked fine here, and my router was
around the same distance from computer. I have a Linksys router here.
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